A kaleidoscope of colors - a bridge between the OZM HAMMERBROOKLYN and “A city becomes colorful” Art has the power to be an expression of its time and at the same time presents the individuality of its creators. Once it has made it onto the wall in the museum, it begins to influence the image of its time among a wider audience. Artworks […]
Dirk Vorndamme | The world is not enough “The earth will die too if they (people) carry on like this. No question about it. So we have death here again. People are so stupid, I would say, like a cancer virus, that they destroy their own host and then die. Because
ArtOne | Aerosol HandStyles "A picture must always fit the interior. It must not only be art for the sake of art, but for me the aspect that art also fits the interior is also important. That is very important. It takes a good eye for art to fit into the environment. That there is always a
"The highest form of art is the total work of art in which the boundaries between art and non-art are abolished." (Kurt Schwitters) Being normal is monotonous and colorless. And that's exactly what the artist does Darco FBI from France, one of the best international sprayers, with his unique graffiti at the Sternschanze S-Bahn station in Hamburg. On behalf of the Germans
Loomit | Noodle Poodle “You have to master your instrument. Painting is the instrument of drawing. You have to be able to draw the apple before you paint something big on the wall. Before you smear paint on the wall, you have to have an idea of form, light and shadow and so on. That comes from drawing. The craft must
MIR | Fasten your Seatbelt “Always seeing everything clearly is also boring. It's exciting when some things remain blurred." (MIR, 2020) Have a seat, lean back and “Buckle your seatbelts!” because the plane is cleared for take-off. The Hamburg-based artist MIR loads in OZM HAMMERBROOKLYN with his exhibition Fasten your Seatbelt to
MIR | Bon Voyage What would the modern world population look like today if we had allowed different role models and power structures to emerge? In which world and social order do we then live? How did we interact with each other and with the flora and fauna? MIR and Hieronymus Bosch, two artists working in different styles, provide us with depictions of people who
A Nigerian proverb says: "It takes a whole village to raise a child." The weeks have passed and so has our offspring, the OZM HAMMERBROOKLYN, grows and thrives splendidly. In the last few weeks, thanks to the passionate commitment of our artists and the rest OZMteam, a lot has happened to us. The exhibit is taking on more and more
The days are getting cooler again. Also in OZM HAMMERBROOKLYN a lot of things are shifting to the interior again. In our exhibit there are not only the exhibition rooms, but also a few studios where the artists sometimes design and realize their exhibitions. A nice circumstance, not only because you can watch the artists experimenting and creating, but
The old OZM The gallery is metaphorically burned in the sun. The ashes lie dark and grey at our feet. But in the middle, signs are already forming that point to something new and incredible... Looking at old records and pictures, sometimes you realize how some things anticipate others: For example, we recently realized that
